Join Desert Oracle Radio for an audio tour of how the American Desert celebrates Christmastime. With festive soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. This is EPISODE #255: YUCCA YULETIDE.
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To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, this is DESERT ORACLE RADIO’s new storytelling series: THE ELDRITCH REPUBLIC. Each episode covers a strange chapter in the history of America. We present these first three episodes to you, with original soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, all written & hosted by Ken Layne.
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CHRISTMAS IN CHELSEA, WITH ST. NICHOLAS
We’ve heard some weird news about Saint Nicholas that turns out to be a few years old, but that’s all right. Christmas itself is old news, after all. That’s why we love it, because it’s ancient and beautiful, the time for silent walks in the cold night, just the sound of your boots crunching through the snow, the half-moon glowing through the Joshua trees.
Plus: Which phrases and words shall be banned in the new year? And: Christmas poems, from the pen of Frost & Longfellow.
This is EPISODE #234: CHRISTMAS AMONGST THE JOSHUA TREES with seasonal soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the radio tonight in Joshua Tree, Z107.7 FM, 10 p.m.
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A wet winter is visiting the American High Desert this Week of the Winter Solstice … which used to be the same day as Christmas and New Year’s and the Birthday of Dionysus, until Big Government caused the chaos and disorder of the present. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free show via our Desert Oracle Patreon.
Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver; written & produced by Ken Layne. This is EPISODE #209: GADZOOKS, IT’S SOLSTICE-TIME! Listen to the radio broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree & the Mojave High Desert.
“Gentlemen!” yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, “All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell!”
So began the four-month-long “shortcut” that left the starving Lost ’49ers in the middle of Death Valley at Christmas. Hopefully your holidays won’t be quite so exciting, although it’s generally better to have an adventure than just sit around eating pies. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne, and broadcasting tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.
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Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. Now is the time for EPISODE #175: NED LUDD’S RETURN. Listen on your radio in Joshua Tree or Moab or Fresno or various other community stations. With soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written and hosted by Ken Layne — which tonight includes a piece originally written for Popula.
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Listen live on the radio in the High Desert: Fridays 10-11 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM, and Saturdays at 9 p.m. on KZMU 90.1 FM & 106.7 FM in Moab, Utah.
Live from the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, here’s our final show of the 2021 Tour, with your host Ken Layne and live solstice soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Occultists and mystics, cultists and coyotes, all gathered together in uneasy alliance on this Christmas Eve.
(There’s no show on the radio tonight in the High Desert, as our home station is playing Christmas music tonight. Photos by SW Lauden.)
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it’s the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlan joins us to talk about the winter holidays in Santa Fe. New solstice sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.
Tonight at 10 p.m., from Amboy to Zzyzx on Z 107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.
Merry Christmas, pigs.
Our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Road Trip Map is here.
We’re back with an all-new holiday episode, including a talk with Brendan Maze regarding his Hi-Desert Christmas Pageant and the controversy regarding his foundation’s non-profit status. Also: strange machinery of times past, and more from our Wild & Mysterious Mojave Map. New sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Happy Solstice To You All & To All a Good Night.
Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen live in the High Desert at 10 p.m. Friday nights, on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.
It’s our first annual holiday show, with plenty of Christmas cheer (more or less) from our studios in downtown Joshua Tree. Were you good this year? Well then maybe Santa will bring you Pentagon proof of UFOs and maybe Santa is an alien too, why not? Why not gather ’round the festive Joshua tree with all the colorful insects and whatever else is hidden in the dead needle-tipped branches and join us, this one last time before the new year? Why not??
We’ve got our friend and Pioneertown neighbor Jeremy Corbell of ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com aboard the Desert Oracle Combat Training Center and he has just come back from Skinwalker Ranch, again, and yes that is the very “Utah ranch” discussed in the shocking (?) New York Times reports of a UFO program within the Department of Defense, a program that also involved Nevada billionaire Robert Bigelow and a secret warehouse full of mystery. And our high-desert soundscape wizard RedBlueBlackSilver cooked up a special soundtrack called “Amber” for this haunted conversation. (more…)
